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1 , I I CORTRiqRT »B<X ST JTAN CO,
Vanderbilt Suffers by Loss
Os Three Star Gridiron Men
Nashville, tenn. Aug 17.
Although the baseball sea
son Is not yet over, interest
here Is already turning to football
and there is much speculation as
to whether the Commodores will be
as strong this season as they were
tn 1912, when they won the undis
puted championship of the South
Coach McQugln faces a severe
handicap this year because of the
fact three of the greatest gridiron
warriors In ths history of the South
have departed, having played their
four years in the S. I A. A.
They are Kay Morrison. 1912
captain and all-American choice of
Ted Coy; Frog Metzger, nil-South
ern guard, and Ewing Freeland,
who is conceded to be one of the
greatest linemen this team ever
produced.
Morrison recently married at Mc-
Kenzie and Is teaching and coach
ing the football team of Branham
and Hughes school, Springhill,
Tenn : Metzger will coach either in
Louisiana or Ohio, having had of
fers from universities In both
states, and Freeland will also fol
low the occupation of coaching this
fall.
Morrison May Not Return.
It will he Impossible to ade
quately All the shoes of these men
In one season, notwithstanding the
fact that there are several good
men coming to Vanderbilt from
neighboring prep schools It is also
a possibility that Kent Morrison,
right end of the team last season,
and Charles Brown, one of last
Beason’s linemen, will not return.
Should these not come, McGugln
will be forced to practically remodel
his machine
Hardage, Collins and Sikes, the
.three backfield men of lust year, are
certain to return The three most
promising candidates for Morri
son's position at quarter are Zach
Curltn, whose drop kicking was the
sensation of Southern football last
year and who scored on Michigan
r~—
FODDER FOR FANS |
Scout Bill Armour, of the Cardinals,
after looking over Sixt) teams, has se- .1
lected five players All are from the n
South I
• •
The Cards' new men front the South
are Whilteii from .laeksont ille, Rat Col- ..
Uns from Greenwood, Gallowav of t icks
burg. Perritt of Greenwood, ami Redding
of Columbus. Miss
• • • a
Bill Armour likes Georgia so well as ?
a training camp that he has advised
Bresnahan to pick out a place In Geor- J
gta for spring training
• • •
The Reign of the Rookies has begun
with the New York Americans, The ■
regular players don't <ut ant more fig
ure with Wolverton's team than thev do •'
In early spring Harry's working to
ward I*l3 with a long wax to go
• . .
Al Bridwell seems absolutely recovered! 1
front the injur.' that kept him out of ' 1
the game so long and ,s playing cop- I
per-rlveted hall for the Brat.-
• • •
Bill Dahlen « fa : lure w *h 11 Brook- >
lyn team may be traced i to -deep 1
interest in the p >niet- M draw dif
fered from that disease r. • i u -If. I
recovered.
• • •
Clark Griffith s great club ■ m;ol. ;. 1
largely of cast-offs Tai n a one. nt. .
Walter Johnson Tom Hughes head ■
has been on the block more that once
Gandil has worn the tinwar. for the
White Sox fired him Hat M ■ga ■ w..s
tried bv Baltimore and '.it ba. k
Virginia league. Eddie I stei w... <r .1
by the Yanks anil sent !•■.■ k • the I
ern George Mcßride i"k th>- ar
gree as far back as l!>01. and ! .i. -• i
for it twice since Pan M flirt w -
canned at least once, ami u. mi
coaching team. Schaefer and
has had the iron ball pinned 5e..,.d
times. . • »
The most popular music w
Giants now is that famom- ba.la-
Club Ever Flew So High It I'idn't 11. •
to Light.” ...
Says SM Mercer. ‘Murray is a< tem
neramental as an automobile Xon ~n
never tell whether he is going to tint,
a mile a minute or stand still
\ fan In Pittsburg named ' ! A
Bovle has brought suit against tin
rates for »1!5.000 He < alms he wa. u.
lured September 3. I’ll, in th* y
crowd that attended the l’«rates-Giant
game that day
via this route; Hord Boensch, quar
ter of the scrubs last year, and
Robins, sub-quarter for two sea
sons. Curlln seems the logical man.
being fast and a good punter In
addition to a drop kicker. He is
also a sure tackler and very effect
ive in advancing the hall. He has
yet to miss a field goal in a regula
tion game.
Among the promising men who
will come to Vanderbilt from prep
schools are McWilliams, backfield,
from Branham & Hughes; Cleve
land Shipp, lineman, Mooney
school. Herman Daves, Morgan
school, lineman; Jere Porter, line
man, Castle Heights, and Josh
Cody, lineman. Bethel college Mc-
Williams Is considered one of the
fastest and most promising back
field men In the South and will he
given every opportunity to make
good. He may be used In the back
field, or, If K Morrison does not
return, may be used at end.
Shipp a Good Lineman.
Cleveland Shipp, a 200-pounder,
who has played four years on the
Mooney school team. Harriman,
Tenn., Is a wonderful young line
man and is expected to be one of
the mainstays of the line at Van
derbilt this year. He 1s no kin to
the famous "Sklnney” Shipp, of
Sewanee, although coming from the
same prep school.
Morton Adams, star halfback of
the Commodores in 1909, will re
turn next year, studying law, and
will play football again. He is a
heavy man and especially good at
line plunging This is making him
a favorite in the eyes of Dan Mc-
Gugin.' since it seems that the old
plunging game will be the main
thing this year. Adams is also an
aggressing defensive man.
iif the old linemen. Buddy Mor
gan. Joe Covington, Tom Brown,
of the regulars, will be back, and
there are several good subs of last
year who showed promise of de
veloping Into stars this season.
Lou Castro has signed “Horseshoe”
Jess Reynolds to pitch for his Ports
mouth team. Jess was formerly an um
pire
• • ♦
The Cubs gained six games in their
recent Eastern trip
• • •
Ping Body and Manager Callahan 1 .id
a verbal run-in the other day. and ''Cal'
sent Ping home and told him to go to
bed Ping of course quit the team on
the spot, but rejoined it again the fol
lowing day. about game time
• • •
In a recent double bender at Savannah,
Sam Mayor ex Cracker. made a single,
a double and a homer In the first game
and started a triple play in the second.
♦ « •
The Sally league record for long games
is said t<» be held b\ the Columbia and
Charleston clubs, which, on April 22.
1905, went nineteen innings to a score
less tie
• • •
There s a shortstop named Daubert
playing in the Ohio State league who
is a cousin of Jake Daubert. of the
Superba< The Ohio man will get a trial
m fast company somewhere next spring
Stahl says he's not afraid of the Ath
h tit-i and that his team is going ahead
with, preparation; f •.:* the world series
\t that there’s nothing like a stiff upper
lip
• ♦ •
Jake Daubert says with loud emphasis
’bat he is not fishing for Bill Dahlen’s
job and <tates that he has not seen
c a’b‘\ Ebbrts ■ x *-pt casually on the
: since th* se.»<. n started. lake will
l t 'babls manage the Superbas next
• a’\ despite his remarks
They sax the reason Jud Daley didn’t
. last In tl e big show was that the lights
were so bright up there thev dazzled his
: balllng ex •
The reason Vicksburg gave tor drop
ling ■ :t .1 the Catton States league was
that the.' couldn’t make receipts of <25
a dax meet expenses of s]oo a day
I which is reason enough, surely
Cx Young has struck oil - <>n Vis
Paoli farm ami will soon b» selling the
stuff John D
\\ he' M.r.ttol • \*-xx »r . wi with
lUo hits the other dax International
league 'Hi .cs haiir-* Icm .• one >f t.»
greatest (wirier- t organization ever
ad w.
fTTF ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATI’RDAY. AUGUST 17. 1912.
Smith Has His Work Cut Out in Rebuilding a Cracker Team for 1913
NEEDS A SLATHER OF MEN; ORIFFITH MAY HELP
______________________________________
By Percy 11. Whiting.
WHEN Bill Smith takes over
the Atlanta ball club he’ll
be a happy man. But he'll
have his work cut out for him.
Never In his history, unless possi
bly When he grabbed the reins and
the discords and the discourage
ments at Buffalo, has he faced a
problem like the one he must solve
if he is to put the fair city of At
lanta. Georgia, back on the base
ball map In letters large enough to
he road by the naked eye.
After a team has been a tall
ender for two years it Is in bad.
And that goes' for Atlanta. The
line-up Is Just peppered with cork
ing good players, but they are all
to pieces and look like Class D per
formers.
« • •
ir GW many mon on the present
squad will Bill Smith be able
to count on for next season? It
begins to look as though it would
be very few. Gs all the new men
recently tried out it appears that
only "Dug" Harbison and Catcher
Reynolds are going to be worth a
hang.
And Harbison is so blamed good
that some big league team will
probably grab him by draft—bad
cess to ’em.
Whether Harbison goes or stays,
there will be as many gaps on the
team as there are in a boarding
house comb.
• • •
| ET'S figure the team from Bill
1 - Smith's viewpoint, for we all
know Bill, know the kind of ball
players he likes and the kind he
will not have.
It's an even money bet that
Smith will pick up about one more
catcher for a try-out. Bill is a
glutton for good catchers. Good
backstopping staffs helped to win
him two pennants in Atlanta and
he doesn't object to them at all.
it's a cinch bet right now, that If
Bill Smith could get Sid Smith for
$2,500 he would snap him up In a
minute. And it would be a good
investment at that. But Sid will
hardly be on the market next year.
Bill will be well suited with Pat
Graham and Reynolds. But It Is a
tine bet that he will get another
man.
• • •
for some real pitchers
on the Atlanta team next sea
son. Rill is soft on good catchers,
but he’s positively mushy on good
DICK GILBERT UNEARTHS
A MONSTER WHITE HOPE
NEW YORK. Aug. 17. Denver has a
"white hope” who is more massive,
magnificent and stupendous than our
Woolworth building or Pennsylvania
station. The Colorado conqueror is
yclept Oscar Withers and ate his first
■ meal In Middlesboro. Ky.
Oscar Isold enough to vote next No
vember. towers ti feet 10 inches in his
gaiters and displaces 260 pounds of
lead shot. He has a reach of 86 1-2
inches and is severely handicapped in
evei \ boarding house In w hich he Ilves.
Dick Gilbert, a Denver middleweight,
who has been fighting in the South, is
handling Oscar, and Dick says that his
man has Jim Corbett and Jack O'Brien
and Adeline Gettee all beat for being
fast and clever and quick and light on
his feet. Os course, he has the stock
18.2-inch balk line wallop in elthei
hand and can also "assimilate punish
ment" and play a phonograph,
Oscar is so big that even his pic
ture can't be reduced small enough to
get in the paper. Gilbert threatens
to bring him to New York next month.
JONES MEETS CANNON
FOR MISSOURI TITLE
KANSAS CITY. MiAug 17 H V.
■ Jones, of Kansas t'ily. defeated Heath
Moore, Kansas City, in the semi-finals
of the Missouri Vallex championship
tennis tournament Jones will meet
Jack Cannon, of Kansas City, in the
An us todav
In doubles Jon. s and John T. Bailey.
of Xlblon okla., d tied Proctor Mas.
Iti r- iml II W Dura 1. of Kansas Clt)
| Tie winners will meet Moore and t’att-
I non todux tin finals
pitchers. Ixiok at those he had in
Atlanta Russell Ford, Roy Castle
ton, Bob Spade, Rube Zeller and
the rest.
It is questionable if Bill and
Vedder Sitton would hook up with
smooth results. And still they
might. Sitton is sure to be. held
over for a trial. Brady will be
kept, of course, and should be a
better pitcher next year than he
has been this year. Bill Smith is
just the sort of a man to keep
Brady in line and make him pitch
ball. The methods of Atlanta's
next manager are peculiar, but no
body will deny that they are highly
successful.
Johnson will doubtless go back
to Hopkinsville or some other place
pretty soon unless he shows some
thing This chap is a clever look
ing pitcher, but he doesn’t get re
sults. At that, they may decide to
hold him over for a trial next year.
Waldorf will be held if the Cubs
don’t recall him. This big German
is just the sort of pitching mate
rial that Smith likes to work with.
Give Bill a man with plenty of size
and a sweeping curve and he will
make a pitcher out of him. Bill
doesn’t mind a little wildness. If
he takes over Waldorf next spring
he will make a pitcher of him.
Becker needn’t be counted, for he
is going back to Washington.
Os course. Smith will round up
some new pitchers. He is a good
one at digging them out of the
brush. He yanked Russ Ford. Bob
Spade, Tom Hughes and a lot of
other good ones out of the brush
and he always has hie eyes peeled.
• * •
J F Bill Smith can get Otto Jordan
back, as seems certain, he will
get an infield, all right. He will
put Alperman at third or short.
What he will do with third and
first remains to be seen. If Harbi
son escapes the draft he, of course,
will have a place. But he is pretty
likely to be grabbed.
■'Humpty’’ McElveen is a prob
lem. Last year he batted .276. This
year he hovers around the .230
mark. He is a fair fielder, but not
fast. There was talk of sending
him to the outfield. There might
be a possibility of playing him at
first base. He will hardly do at
third.
About what will happen is:
Smith will try out McElveen at
various positions next spring If
"Humpty" begins hitting he will
The Big Race
Here's how the “Big Five” of the
American league are hitting the ball,
the averages including yesterday's
games:
PLAYER. AB. H. P.C.
COBB 415 173 .417
SPEAKER ... 439 173 .394
JACKSON 419 159 .379
COLLINS 395 134 .339
LAJOIE 282 88 .312
Cobb gained two points yesterday by
securing two hits in three times up.
And. all the better for the "Georgia
Peach," both Speaker and Jackson fell
off two notches. Both were up twice
and failed to connect. Collins kept up
his timely clouting by banging forth
two hits in four trips to the plate. La
joie did likewise.
WELSH MAKES PUNCHING
BAG OUT OF PHIL KNIGHT
WINNIPEG, MAN Aug. 17—Fred
di** \\ “Isb showed championship class
in his tw i lve-round battle here with
| Phil Knight and won handily. He hit
i Win n willed and had no trouble to
knock his rival of! his feet Knight
got in only one solid blow.
EDDIE O'KEEFE IS SIGNED
TO MINGLE WITH KILBANE
CLEVELAND. OHIO. Aug 17.
Johnny Kilbane. featherweight cham
pion and llddb <' Keefe w ere signed
hxlaj for a ten-round go at Madison
Squari Garden. New York, on Septern
bei 19 O'Keefe is to make I_'2 pounds
I
find a place for him. If he doesn't,
he will find a place also —but not
on the Atlanta team.
t* • •
T T appears that Smith will have to
develop an entirely new out
field next spring. Bailey will be
recalled. Callahan has been un
able to hit this year. Unless he
gets going next year he will by let
out early in the season. Cyons
hasn't shown even a faint flash of
Class A hitting ability and will
doubtless go unless he can spring
something Impressive in the way
of base hits next spring.
• * •
JUST as a rough guess, Bill Smith
will have one more catcher,
five to eight new pitchers, three to
five recruit infielders and four to
seven new outfielders report next
spring. He will need to try out
that number if he is going to plug
the holes in the present Cracker
club.
• • «
\\ HERE will Smith get his play
ers? Take this as a tip: He
will get a batch of them from the
Washington club. Clark Griffith,
manager of the Senators, Is one of
Bill Smith's closest friends in base
ball.
Even before Smith was secured
as manager, Clark Griffith decided
he wanted to train next spring in
Atlanta. The deal hasn’t been
closed yet. but it probably will be.
If It is. Griffith will surely leave
one man here for "ground rent,”
and probably more.
Os course, the new waiver rules
make It peculiarly difficult to waive
a man out of the big leagues and to
get them to the Southern, but
Washington will doubtless have
some men who will be good enough
for Atlanta and yet poor enough to
be waived this far.
Smith will certainly draft a lot
of men. He has always had a lot
of good information about desir
able talent and he can always be
counted on to pick up a few good
performers from the bush.
• • •
|"jNE thing about Smith—he will
never again fall Into the error
of getting a team of old-timers. He
tangled up with one his first year
In Chattanooga and that satisfied
him. He will always have a few
old heads for the purpose of steady
ing and teaching the youngsters.
But be w ill never run one of these
Old Soldiers homes, such as Hemp
hill conducted here this season.
BIG PARADE IN HONOR
OF OLYMPIC ATHLETES
NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—One of the
features of the parade in honor of the
American Olympic team here on Au
gust 24 w ill b<' a guard of honor made
up of former champions and heroes of
the cinder path and field.
■ Harry E. Buermeyer, founder of the
New York Athletic club, will marshal
the veterans’ brigade, and among those
1 who will be seen in the front rank
1 are Harry Fredericks, one of the ear
-1 liest American invaders of England’s
athletic fields; "Cinders" Murray, who
showed the foreigners how to walk in
' the early eighties; W. E. Purdy, Mur
ray's rival in heel and toe walk; Tom
, my Burke and other members of the
, Boston Athletic association team that
i won the first Olympic honors for Amer
ica at Athens in 1896, and Martin Sher
idan. winner at three Olympic meets.
SCHWARTZ BEATS TIERNEY
AND MORGAN STOPS WALSH
NASHVILLE, TENN.. Aug 17
"Young Schwartz" easily outpointed
' Billx Tierney, of Louisville, before the
’ Fourth Avenue club in an eight-round
1 bout. Eddie Walsh, of Chicago, was
1 knocked out by Jack Morgan, of Nash
ville. in the second round.
- JACK DENNING KNOCKED
out by jack McCarron
PHILADELPHIA, bis. 17. Jacli
I McCarron. of Allentown. Pa knocked
1 out Jack Denning, a New York welter
- weight. In the second round at the
Olympic Athletic club last night.
Series Between Major League
Runners-Up Sure Listens Good
By Monty.
NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—Frank
Chance is brave and bold. The
other day the Peerless Lead
er told us that his Chicago Cubs
would beat out the Giants for the
National league pennant, beyond
the shadow of a doubt, and also
that he was equally certain the
Washington Senators would over
haul the Boston Red Sox for the
American league banner, likewise
that the Cubs would lick the Sena
tors. We are glad he made the re
mark, not that we share his cer
tainty in the matter, but because
it gave us an idea.
A second world’s series between
the runners-up in the two leagues
—that is the idea.
In event that the present order
In the two leagues remains un
changed at the end of the season
and the Giants and Red Sox come
to grips for the banner of suprem
acy, wouldn't it make a good little
sideshow if the Chance selections
—Senators and Cubs—-could meet
In a series of like nature? And
wouldn't it be a good stunt to es
tablish the runner-up series for
every year, under conduct of the
National Commission? And there
are those who would carry the idea
even farther and have the clubs all
along the line meet, clear down to
the tail-enders, who would be
scrapping for the cellar champion
ship of the world. Even a cellar
championship might draw big
crowds, because of the fact that the
contenders never before would
have met.
Tigers and Cubs Last Year.
But the main slice of this inspi
ration is that concerning the run
ners-up series. In the past some
good battles would have been pro
vided by such an event. Last year
it would have brought together the
Detroit Tigers and the Cubs, and
the year before, when the Cubs
won the National title, it would
have been the Giants versus the
Tigers. In 1909 it would have been
Cubs again for the National and
the Athletics from the American,
Pittsburg and the Tigers winning
the flags that year. Any one of
these scraps would have been in
teresting
|NEWS FROM RINGSIDEI
' 1
Al Wambsgans, the New Orleans light
e weight who won the national A. A. C
title at Boston last May, will leave the
e Crescent City for New York shortly,
_ where he plans to make his debut as a
professional. The amateur champion was
*’ offered a match with Ray Temple by a
f New Orleans club, but declined the bout
as he wants to start at the bottom by
meeting some of the third raters and
e building up.
I.• • •
Johnny Dundee’s heart will pine no
k more. The little tighter has been match
. ed with Champion Johnny Kilbane for
s a ten-round tight in New York Septem
‘ ber 4 Kilbane will receive $3,500 for his
0 services.
n • • •
If Joe Mandot is defeated by .Joe Rivers
- on the coast Labor day it will not be
e because he did not have proper trainers.
I Hobo Dougherty, Ad Wolgast’s famous
sparring partner, Abdul the Turk ami
Harry Thomas, the classy little English
■ scrapper, have been added to the South
ern champ’s training camp.
♦ • •
Tom Jones, Ad Wolgast’s manager, has
r p eked Mandot to defeat Rivers
-I Johnny Coulon. bantamweight, has gom
1 to his farm in High Lake, W s fol a
six weeks vacation. The little scrapper
- will live in Xhe open, hunting and fishing
d for several weeks before he returns to
p the East to defend his title On his re
• turn he will go to Kenosha. Wis . an<l
' meet Frankie Hurns. He will then jump
9 over to New York and meet Charho L*
‘ doux, the French champion
• • •
Philadelphia Jack O’Brien was arrested
in l*hila<lelphia a few days ago on two
warrants charging him with assault ami
battery ami larceny Hlllv Payne, sev
ki eral years ago a lightweight boxer, is
'he complainant
• • •
Johnny Kilbane will be sc«*n working
the roads neat Cleveland next Mondfix
Th* liitle champion ha« a« < epted an ad
miter’s dare that h# could not stand the
p work ami hired out lohnny will re
reive $2 for his day s labor.
There are several possible objec
tions that might be raised to such
a suggestion, chief among them
the fact that the runners-up series
might detract from interest in the ' • •
world's series proper. But this we
do not believe would be the case.
Because of its affording opportuni
ty for additional comparisons,
which always are the delight of
the fans, the new series should en
hance interest in the old and es
tablished one for the big crown.
Everybody who could go to the
world's series otherwise would go
anyway, in spite of the runners-up
series. •
One more apparent objection to
the founding of such a series as a
regular thing might be that in some
years a city possessing one pbn
| nant winner might have the run
ners-up in the rival league, and
accordingly the games might con- f
filet. This objection could be
wiped out merely by arranging the
schedules of the two series in the
same way as the annual league
schedules are framed. While one
team is playing in the city, let
the other be playing away from It.
Keep them alternating in that par
ticular town and there would be no
conflict.
Commission Could Run Series.
Another possible objection is that
the National Commission could not
handle two series and attend both
properly. It could. Prominent men
of baseball could be employed di
rectly by the commission to su
pervise the series, and they could
work directly under its authority.
There are plenty of competent ones,
and the thing could go through
just as well as under the present
regime of only one series.
From the standpoints of both
fans and the powers that be. the
project should be a good one. The
moguls would harvest more money, * •
and the fans would be provided
with something of additional inter- ,
est to them. Since the fans are in
disputably the ones who keep the
game alive by spending their dol
lars during the season, their side
of it is entitled to consideration by
the commission. If the commis
sion could be shown that the fans
want such a series, they ought to
arrange one, and probably would.
Manager Tortorich, of the Orfeans A. #
<’., New Orleans, is looking for some good
lightweight to box Harry Thomas at th©
weekly show Monday night. The club
had planned to give that late to Jack.
White witli Thomas as his opponent, hut
the defeat of the Chicago boxer by
Frankie Russell has caused the manage
ment to deckle this would not be 4
<1 raw ing card
• • •
Johnny Kilbane has expressed his wil
lingness to box A lie At tell a return bout
Labor day. provided the promoters make
him a satisfactoi. offer The champion
will start training Monday “to lie ready /
for any emergency .’’ as he terms it.
JOHNSON AND NILES
WIN IN FINAL ROUND
SorTHAMPTON. L I Aug 17.—N.
W. Nibs, <>f Boston, and N W. John
son, of i’hilad' Iphhi won their plays in
the final round of the Meadow club cup
singhs here Johnson de
feated It I Williams Niles beat E. P.
Larned, voimg. i luothei of the national *
< hainphin.
In the send fln.ib of the doubles. W.
J t'lothler and <; P Gardner beat G. *
Biddle and It N Williams M E. Mc-
Loughlin ami 'l' <• Bundy in the third
round beat Nib’s nnd Dabney, former
Haivird t.ns, and in the srmi-fina!
rhe\ beat Johnson and t F. Watson, Jr.
WALTER JOHNSON WINS
FOURTEENTH STRAIGHT
W ASHING’I’ON. Aug 17.—Walter ,
Johnson lu-id i ‘hicago to one scratch
hit y< t< nnd ishington won
wins sot Johnson. e<iualing the Aineti
an :• agip- i * <111(1 held by < ’hesbro w hilt*
pitching sot New York